Townsend, Geoffrey, Lance Corporal, 27072, 9th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Born Bretton Clough, Eyam, Derbyshire Enlisted Sheffield, Yorkshire Killed in action 26th April 1918 aged 24 Son of Joseph and Fanny Townsend, of Coplow Dale, Tideswell, Buxton Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial
1911 Census A domestic gardener Son of Joseph, a farmer, and Fanny Townsend, of Bretton Clough, Eyam, Derbyshire
Family headsone commemorating Maurice and Geoffrey Townsend, St. Barnabas' Churchyard, Bradwell
Born Bretton Clough, Eyam, Derbyshire
Enlisted Sheffield, Yorkshire
Killed in action 26th April 1918 aged 24
Son of Joseph and Fanny Townsend, of Coplow Dale, Tideswell, Buxton
Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial
1911 Census
A domestic gardener
Son of Joseph, a farmer, and Fanny Townsend, of Bretton Clough, Eyam, Derbyshire
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Geoffrey's brother Maurice, for some reason, is not named on the Bradwell Memorial. He is instead listed on the War Memorial at Bamford.